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Cobus Coetzee of Beeld newspaper reports that tens of thousands of angry residents in the town of Piet Retief in Mpumalanga province sowed fire and destruction all over the region by torching the homes of ANC-councillors and municipal-run pinetree plantations bordering commercial food-producing farms.

All the shops in the traditional Voortrekker Boer-built town of Piet Retief were shuttered and boarded up while the residents rampaged through the town with their firebrands, looking for ANC-councillors’ properties to burn… The outburst of anger was prompted by the fact that all the councillors of the local “Mkhondo” municipality – i.e. Piet Retief – according to residents had to resign because of the widespread accusations of gross mismanagement of the usually so peaceful region’s financial affairs. Residents demand that they resign, saying they won’t wait for the results of the ANC’s own internal ‘forensic audit’.

Thousands of residents demand that the mayor Mary Khumalo resign at once -- together with municipal manager Roy Ledwaba. The residents accuse them and other ANC-councillors of gross financial mismanagement, saying they live in poverty, without municipal services, while the councillors live in the lap of luxury.

Picture left: the original treaty between the Voortrekker Boer leader Piet Retief and Zulu King Dingane granted the Boers private ‘everlasting’ property rights in the Zulu’s hegemonial areas. This is the document from the 1838 treaty. The town was named after this gutsy Boer leader.

The local MEC Norman Mokoena, promised in response to the outbursts of anger, that an internal ‘forensic audit’ would be conducted, but also said they weren’t going to just summarily dismiss the councillors before its results were known. Residents weren’t well-pleased with this response however, and started torching the homes of the councillors and the municipal properties from which, it is being alleged, the ANC-fat cats are earning their lucrative incomes: which include the large pine- and wattle-tree plantations surrounding the town.

Police supt. Abie Khoabane, said the N2-freeway to Pongola was blocked with burning tyre-barricades and that groups of angry firebrands were walking around torching everything in sight. All the businesses in Piet Retief were closed with their doors and windows shuttered while the residents vented their rage. Hendrik Zeelie, a farmer and security chief of the local farmer’s association, said they were worried about the safety of the area’s food-security, because the pine plantations being torched are located right next to the commercial food-farms.

Mayor Andries Gamede of the ruling regional management committee, called the Gert Sibande-district council, which is a different ruling body from the Mkhondo municipality, said the residents cannot demand that councillors must be fired before they have ‘completed their investigation’.

Pictures by Beeld newspaper of Kameelfontein smallholders Tania de Reuch, 32, her husband Elmore, 31 and son, traumatised after attack

A second white couple of the Kameeldrift smallholdings near Pretoria, which have been in a decades-long siege from armed criminal gangs, were attacked in the past two weeks. Elmore de Reuck (31) of Sable Hills high-security Waterfront Estate at the Roodeplaat dam near Kameelfontein was tied up. The family was looted of a ring, a watch, jewellery and R3,000 in cash.

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Jaco and Ohna Strauss also attacked

Only two weeks earlier, Jaco en Ohna Strauss, left, were also attacked in the same luxury high-security complex. During this attack, the men had also been equally crude and aggressive as they were to the De Reuck couple, and had also threatened to rape Mrs. Strauss, telling her: ‘you whites live so nice while we blacks live in such misery, we are here to rape you…’

According to Mr De Reuck ‘s brother-in-law Armand du Toit, 41, the power to the homestead had been cut off and the couple had left a sliding door slightly ajar to run an electricity extension cord to his home next door. The De Reuch children Tanel (5) and Elmore jr. (6) sleep with their parents in the same bedroom but had slept through the attack because the armed robbers were unable to get the fortified bedroom door opened up. Braam Fourie,security official at the complex, said they have stepped up their security measures by installing twelve more surveillance cameras. Police constable Portia Maleka confirmed that police were investigating. No-one was arrested. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2534381,00.html

2008 attacks in greater Pretoria area show the intense and long-term ferocity of these armed attacks against Afrikaner whites:

8-year-old Afrikaans boy used as human shield by armed gang, S.AfricaDecember 03 2008 -- Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld journalist Virginia Keppler reports how three armed robbers used 8-year-old Afrikaans farm boy as a shield yesterday - to lure the owner of a game farm from his homestead. Their purpose: to kill the Kenyaka lodge game-farm owner.

Ms Keppler reports that the child, Juandré Reyneke, 8, and his father, André, a professional hunter, were overpowered and assaulted at about 02:00 in their rondavel on a game farm at Varkfontein near Cullinan, east of Pretoria. André, who is a diabetic, and his son were guests on the farm. "We were asleep. When I woke up, I saw someone pushing a pistol against my son's head," said André. "The next moment one (of them) hit me in the face with his fist and pulled me off the bed.

"They wanted money, access to the gun safe and firearms. My child became hysterical. "I talked to him to calm him down, but then they jumped on my head and back and kicked me in the ribs. "They also hit my son against the head with the pistol and slapped him in the face and on the chest,"André said.

Then the robbers tied André and his son's hands and feet with boot laces. One of the thugs stayed to guard the father while the other two dragged his son to the rondavel (a round African cottage) in which game-farm owner Kassie Cloete was sleeping. After shooting him in the stomach twice, the game-farm owner shot back and the attackers fled. Cloete told the Afrikaans journalist from his bed in Montana Hospital what happened:

He woke up when he heard the boy calling him from outside. "I went to the sliding door of my room and saw the child standing there. I asked him what was wrong and the next moment a man emerged from behind a wall and shot at me." He was hit twice. "I grabbed my pistol and fired a shot, and the robbers fled," Cloete said. But the robbers dragged the terrified child along until they reached the farm gate.

Tried to cut off his ring finger:

"There they shouted at my child: 'Run or we'll shoot you,' but his feet were still tied,"André said.

André said a robber was just about to cut off his ring finger to get his ring when the game-farm owner fired the shot. "Then the robber stopped (carving at my finger) and ran outside. Even though the oom (Afrikaners often refer to elderly men such as Cloete as 'uncle' i.e. Oom) had managed to reach his weapon in time, he couldn't have shot the buggers because they were using my son as a shield." Juandré's mother took him for psychological counselling on Tuesday. The robbers fled with André's pistol, two cellphones, R1,000 cash (and the apparatus he uses to measure his blood sugar. Police spokesman constable Johannes Jafta said one suspect had been arrested. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2436374,00.html

And this is how the same story was reported in the English-language news media:

Shootout at Cullinan lodgeJohannesburg - A man was shot on Tuesday as he exchanged fire with robbers at a lodge in Cullinan, Pretoria police said. Constable Sally Skhosana said the man was shot in the stomach and chest by four armed men who were robbing the Kenyaka Lodge in Varkfontein around 01:00. "The man resisted being searched by the robbers who were robbing all the guest houses at the lodge," said Skhosana. Police called to the scene managed to arrest one of the robbers and the other three escaped. The injured man was taken to a nearby hospital. The arrested man was charged with attempted murder and armed robbery and is expected to appear before the Cullinan Magistrate's Court soon.

AFRIKANERS ON PRETORIA SMALLHOLDINGS ARE UNDER SIEGE

This entire greater Pretoria / Kameeldrift / Cullinan area -- where traditionally, working-class Afrikaners often live on subsistence-survival agricultural holdings, is under siege by such armed gangs. On November 27 2008 - an Afrikaner lawyer was shot dead by gunmen from outside his homestead while sleeping in front of his TV on Nov 26 2008 - and many Afrikaners now are targetted by gunmen in a very similar way.

THIS IS NO ORDINARY CRIME WAVE...

"This is much more than just an ordinary crime wave," warns Institute for Security Studies senior researcher Dr Johan Burger, a former police commissioner. The entire smallholdings area of greater-Pretoria / Bronkhorstspruit / Cullinan / Kameeldrift have over the past few years become an unprecedented 'murder-site', he noted. These extremely violent armed attacks targetting all these Afrikaans smallholder-families have now reached very serious levels, he warned. Contact him here: General Enquiries. Residents describe these attacks as 'a genocide' and plan lodging formal complaints with the United Nations. They also demand that the National Intelligence Agency instead of local police investigates these attacks because they have lost faith in the police's ability to defend them.

Head of criminal investigations division, Patrick Magonono arrested for farm attacks around greater Pretoria with five colleagues:

They are not being paranoid: there is considerable evidence of police collusion in this attacks: Besides the fact that police often fail to respond to emergency calls from besieged Afrikaner families, on June 26 2008, after an internal police-directorate investigation, SAPS capt. Patrick Magonono, head of the region's Magalies Police CID was arrested together with five colleagues for carrying out armed robberies on the local agricultural smallholdings around greater Pretoria for at least five years... This case is still pending: http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2347984,00.html

Over the past five years, the many tens of thousands of Afrikaner families living at these smallholdings in these regions surrounding greater Pretoria have increasingly barricaded themselves behind electrified fences, high security walls and living in a state of constant siege inside their heavily-secured homes. Often little of any real value is ever stolen during these attacks. The attackers invariably are large, heavily-armed black male gangs.

Burger warned:"This situation must be examined much more closely. This isn't just a matter of how some gangs are involved in these attacks - but also exactly what the police is doing proactively to prevent all this. From the latest violent-crime statistics it is very clear that something is very wrong here in this specific smallholdings region,' he added. "These attacks have been going on for a long time and are now growing in intensity and viciousness - since 2001 these attacks on smallholders have doubled and that's an indication that something is badly wrong.' Thus far this year, at least 47 smallholders were killed in this region alone.

Three-hour siege of Legemar family - police took 13 hours to respond...

On November 21, the Legemar family was surrounded inside their small Kameeldrift homestead by a gang of at least 10 young black men, all armed with AK47s. The family had already been awake all night because the dogs were barking constantly, they said. Three family members had time to position themselves in various rooms of the house, fighting back with their (only legally-allowed) handguns.

The family, pictured here recovering from their ordeal, was under siege for three hours - and the police ignored their pleas for help throughout. The homestead was pockmarked with holes from 30 high-calibre bullets and all the windows were shot out, the Afrikaans journalist reported. The SA police insists on referring to such armed attacks of white-owned smallholdings and suburban homes as 'robberies', although often, no attempt is made to steal anything of real value: for instance the unlocked Legemar family car was parked inside the electrified perimetre-fence and remained untouched. The attackers had all crawled beneath this dangerous fence, electrified with 20 strands, to get into the family compound. It took police 13 hours to respond to the family's pleas for help.

Picture: Job Legemar, 48, youngstest children Cariene, 9 and Dieter 13 - recovering from the armed three hour siege by a large group of black gunmen which surrounded their homestead. While the family shot back and escaped unharmed, two of their guard dogs were shot dead and one dog also was poisoned before the well-planned attack by a very large gang. Picture: Beeld, Theana Calitz

"It was warfare here last night. We are happy we are all still alive,' said Mrs Ineke Legemar, 47, after the siege on their homestead. The parents and their five children, Cor, 21, Willemien, 20, Petra, 16, Dieter, 13 and Cariene 9 had a miraculous escape, they all believe. And they also know it won't be the last time... such attackers often come back with reinforcements... "We believe they came here to kill us, it was a murder attack,' said Mr Legemar. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2430766,00.html

Neighbour Laetitia Prinsloo shot dead two nights before:

The Legemar family homestead is located only 3km from the heavily-barricaded home of Dr Duncan Prinsloo, 61, shot in his back and critically injured two nights earlier during an identical armed attack in which his wife Laetitia, 54, was shot dead.

By December 2 2008 - a total of 3,020 white rural Afrikaners have been murdered in an identical manner since 1994, according to the commercial farming associations Agri-SA and the Transvaal Agricultural Union.

Only sleep two hours a night... We live in utter fear here...

A neighbour of Dr Prinsloo of Vaalbank, whose wife Laetitia was shot dead last week, said: "I only sleep about two hours each night now Each little sound has me get up to check if anything is wrong. "We live in utter fear here - but we have no place else to flee to. I don't want to run away...'

Police took two hours to show up... Prinsloo son:

The attacked Prinsloo couple's grieving son, Prinsloo jr. said: "The police are not getting this under control, so the only thing we can now start doing is to take the law into our own hands, start taking care of our own defence,' said Dr Frans Prinsloo junior of Vaalbank. "We can't go on living like this. They are murdering all of us at this going rate.' He said he also was 'bitterly angry' about the very poor reaction time of the police when his parents were gunned down. He phoned 10111 at once after getting their emergency call. It took him a full half-an-hour to explain to the people at the police switchboard how to get to his parents' smallholding... 'Police officers should have knowledge of their patrol areas - but it took then them a full two hours to finally show up.' http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2430750,00.html

They come armed just to kill you in your sleep...

20081126 Peter Moodie, lawyer, Benoni Shot Dead in front of TV Nov 26 2008 Beeld journalist Gloria Edwards reports that a Benoni family had decided against emigration to the UK just two months ago because "South Africa was so lekker (nice)"... Last night laywer Peter Moodie, 36, father of two small children, was shot dead while he'd fallen asleep in front of the TV in his home in Honibal Street, Rynfield.A ll the valuables in the house were left untouched - only his cellphone was robbed.

His widow Beulah, 35, and the children Connor, 7 and Morgan, 4, were asleep in their bedrooms and apparently didn't hear any shots. A pillow was apparently used to muffle the sound, said police constable Godin Nyathi. Of course no-one was arrested. Mrs Moodie said she woke up when she heard her husband scream in Afrikaans: "I will kill you, I will kill you...'

"I ran to him and found him on the floor next to the bar. He did not respond to my calls but was breathing. "Initially I thought he'd fainted or was stabbed, because I saw no blood. Then I saw the gunshot wound in his belly and picked feathers from the pillow he was holding. They must have shot him through the pillow.' She suspects that he chased the attackers from the house and then collapsed at the bar in the living room. "He wanted to protect us,' she said. He died on the scene. He worked in the steel industry.She said her husband liked watching TV until late at night and falling asleep on the couch.Two months ago the couple decided not to emigrate. "We were determined to emigrate to the UK, but then we decided against it because we thought things were too 'lekker' in South Africa."And now look what has happened. "Crime isn't just crime any more, it's pure malice. They come armed just to kill you in your sleep, for no reason at all."http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2433219,00.html

Opposition MP John Goodall 'angry' after attack at Bedfordview home - shot missed his son, visiting from UK

Nov 21 2008 - BEDFORDVIEW -- Beeld journalist Cobus Coetzee reports that Democratic-Alliance parliamentarian Brian Goodall was attacked with his family in their home at the East Rand. His son Peter-John and daughter-in-law Jessica were visiting from the UK at the time. It was Jessica's first time in SA and she was already talking about wanting to move here,' he said. (Contact him at estrasnd@democratic-alliance.co.za ") I doubt if she'll still feel this way after this experience...' he added.

Was this a warning?

Perhaps not by coincidence - his party has just announced that it was lodging a formal complaint with the Independent Electoral Commission, demanding that South Africans abroad be given voting rights through the foreign embassies during the forthcoming presidential. Both the Democratic Alliance and the Freedom Front Plus would benefit greatly if South Africans abroad could vote. At the previous election, only the foreign affairs officers and their families could cast their votes - all the other hundreds of thousands of self-exiled South Africans were denied all voting rights at the embassies . By this year, there are at least 1,5-million mostly 'white' South Africans disenfranchised, all people who had to emigrate to find jobs. Yet under the much-praised 'non-racial' SA Constitution, all South Africans must be given fair access to the right to vote. http://www.da.org.za/?p=1028http://www.da.org.za/

I am angry - Goodall: About the attack at his family home last night, Goodall said: "One keeps on believing that you will only read in the newspapers about such crimes, but now we feel very unsafe inside our own home, and I am angry,' he said. Five armed black men in their early twenties broke into their home at around 2:45 am after climbing across the rear wall, cutting off the burglar bars in the dining room and breaking in. They were armed with two handguns, and forced Goodall and wife Lesley into their bedroom, ordering them to lie down on their stomachs with their faces to the floor.

Shot fired at son:Meanwhile Peter-John and his wife had heard the commotion and started walking downstairs from the second floor bedroom. "When my son walked down the wooden stairs, one of the armed men shot at Peter-John. The shot missed my son, hitting the stairs,' Goodall said.

The four were tied up with their hands behind their backs for about half-an-hour. The five men stole stole all their passports, cellphones, bankcards and an unknown amount of cash. The Goodalls have lived in the same house for the past 34 years. The last breakin was 15 years ago.

Police spokeswoman Nhlanhla Makoba claims that they are 'investigating a complaint of housebreaking'.She said nothing about the attempted murder charge which should also be investigated since a shot was fired at Mr Peter-John Goodall.

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June 28 2009 update: death toll. South African smallholdings and farms: 3,069…

Semi-arid South Africa only ever had 12.1% arable land in total – and now, only 0.79% of the entire country’s land surface still remains farmed with permanent food-crops by less than 12,500 commercial farmers (SA tax records, 2005), says CIA World Factbook

Part one: the history: the ANC's United Democratic Front's violent coercion of its own people before 1994, with the majority of blacks in South Africa not in support of the ANC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAqXOfJQQTE

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Jun 24 2009 Sonja van Buul reports in Beeld newspaper that smallholding Eben Coetzee, 57, was shot dead during an armed attack against their tuck shop on the Rosashof Smallholdings in Vanderbijlpark. He and wife Suretta, 45, had just closed up shop when they were attacked. They have only lived there for three years, arriving from Mooinooi in North West province. This was the second attack on the couple’s shop, said her brother Abrie Hanekom. They were also robbed in April, but were left unharmed while they were tied up. Police inspector Aubrey Moopeloa said they were investigating. Nobody was arrested. If anybody has any photographs or more details I would appreciate it. Please email a.j.stuijt@knid.nlhttp://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2532461,00.html

2009-06-25 Retha Grobbelaar, Beeld - Delmas - An Mpumalanga man says it "must have been my lucky day", after two attackers each pulled a trigger aiming to shoot him during a robbery on Tuesday night, but neither weapon fired. The attackers also repeatedly doused him with boiling water - even pouring it into his ears - and also choked him. Eight armed robbers held up Wynand Pretorius, 55, and his family for two hours in their home on a smallholding in Katboschfontein, near Delmas. With him were his wife, Lydia, 52, two of his children, Annette, 27, and Gerhard, 30, his mother-in-law Doris Engelbrecht, 72, and Julian Pringle, a friend of Annette. "They were waiting for me. First the one pulled his gun's trigger, then the other one did the same. I'm not really sure how I felt at the time, I suppose it was just my lucky day," said Pretorius from the N17 hospital in Springs. "They were beating me, so I pretended to be unconscious. I was still lying like that when they started pouring boiling water all over me. It was extremely painful. They also poured boiling water over my wife." Pretorius sustained burn wounds to his head, neck, back and chest, and had surgery on Wednesday afternoon. His wife is also in the hospital with various injuries, including a broken nose and cheekbones. The other people only sustained light injuries, and did not require hospitalisation. Engelbrecht says she was watching Egoli in her flat (which is attached to the house) when she heard screaming. "Annette came in with one of the attackers. He grabbed me by the neck and choked me. He used his gun to push me into the dining room and kept shouting: 'Sleep!' I'll never forget his face," she said. "I didn't want to look up. I was too scared they might shoot my daughter (Lydia). They tortured her terribly. They beat her with steel clippers. She pleaded with them not to hurt her. "My parrot kept calling 'Ma, Ma'. I was so scared they would kill the bird too, but they didn't." The robbers took two bakkies, seven cellphones, three laptops, three televisions, alcohol and money. After about two hours they placed their loot in the bakkies and left. Annette then called the police over a CB radio. One of the bakkies was found about 200m from the smallholding. The police are investigating a case of armed robbery, but might later add a charge of attempted murder, said police spokesperson Abie Khoabane. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/74fdbb17e37f433cad1e7ddb547b9cfb/25-06-2009%2010-06/Family_tortured_by_robbers

The SA Press Association reports on June 24 2009 that yet another couple have been attacked on a dairy farm. This follows shortly after the recent gruesome murders of several dairy farmers in the greater Pretoria area in which farmer Attie Van der Grijp (far left), the Van Den Bosch couple of The Netherlands and several others, were murdered. In today’s attack, the elderly parents of dairy farm owner Tracy Pemberton, Donald and Yvonne Gubb, were attacked and robbed at the Pemberton dairy farm in Chrissiesmeer, Mpumalanga police said. Mr Gubb was stabbed in the head, clubbed over the head and then stabbed in the chest. They also bashed Mrs Gubb over the head before fleeing only with three cellphones and a R50 note ($5). The elderly couple were reported stable at hospital http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2532443,00.html

June 21 2009 -- Willem Pelser of Rapport, the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper, writes from Nelspruit that police have arrested an unidentified 48-year-old man from Acornhoek while he was allegedly trying to peddle carved up body parts of an unknown white female to a traditional healer.

What is going on?

This is the fifth reported murder of a white person in South Africa who was slaughtered specifically for the purpose of harvesting traditional medicine from their bodies. Before 2009, it was unheard of for whites to be murdered for this specific purpose in the country. For the previous four incidents this year, both in the Free State, both in April see and see . Two men are in custody: a self-confessed traditional healer of Lesotho in the Free State, and the man in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga.

One hand offered for sale had ‘immaculately-manicured finger-nails’. Busbuckridge Police Captain Leonard Hlathi said police forensic experts ‘strongly suspect that this woman may have been murdered, and that she had died only recently -- as the body parts offered for sale were still 'in good condition'. He issued an urgent call for members of the public who are missing a relative in South Africa, to call him at telephone South Africa (31) (0) 82 462 0804 with all the details.The traditional healer kept the man talking after he’d ontacted the police. The suspect allegedly told the muti-doctor and the police that he'd ‘stolen the body parts from a mortuary” - however police instead strongly believe that the woman was killed for this purpose as the body parts were ‘still fresh’. Hlathi said the body 'may have been buried without being identified by her next of kin, and they may not be aware of her death.' The woman's organs were taken to the Acornhoek government mortuary for forensic examination, and the police is continuing to investigate the case, with the man remaining in custody and being closely questioned. He is scheduled to appear in the Acornhoek magistrate's court for his arraignment. Hlathi has now twice issued a public call for people who miss a family member, to contact him at telephone South Africa (31) (0) 82 462 0804.http://jv.news24.com/Rapport/Suid-Afrika/0,,752-2460_2531627,00.html

Jun 18 2009 Daniëlla du Plooy of Beeld newspaper was asked by police to publish the identikit of a man in a BMW-X5 who shot dead driver Ernest Stieler, 39, on 16 May 2009 on the R562 (Olifantsroad) rural road north of Johannesburg. Stieler, a driver for UTi Sun Couriers, was driving on this rural road with his two teenaged sons in his car enroute to their smallholding when a BMW-X5 with GP-license tinted windows drove up to his rear bumper and started flashing lights at him. Since they were approaching a traffic light and Mr Stieler was already slowing down preparing to stop, he did not move over, the boys told police. The BMW-X5 driver, described as a ‘black, overweight black man with a shaved head’, then pulled up next to his car, fired one shot at Mr Stieler with a silver revolver, and then drove off. He was accompanied by a black woman with long, curly hair, police said. One of Stieler’s sons pulled on the handbrake to bring the car to a stop, police said. That’s when the boys discovered that their father was dead with a shot through the chest. Police superintendent Sefako Xaba of Gauteng said they were ‘investigating a road-rage murder’. Mr Stieler’s brother Lucas, who was on the scene shortly thereafter, said the boys, aged 13 and 16, were horrendously shocked and traumatised. “It haunts them that this black man looked straight at them and laughed as he pulled the trigger’,’ he told Ms du Plooy. The investigating officer is inspector J Faull, telephone 082 301 2410 http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2531002,00.html

Jun 19 2009 Bloemfontein. Well-known Afrikaans author/journalist André Potgieter (72) died on June 18 at Pelomoni hospital of injuries sustained in a farm attack at his smallholding in Waterbron near Bloemfontein. Two men, Isaac Molefe, 24, and Joseph Lechuti, 36, were arrested and appearing in Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Wednesday June 24 2009. He was bludgeoned with a carjack and an angle-iron, and also stabbed with a knife, while asleep in his bed. He leaves wife Mara, sons Leon and Pieter and four grandchildren. Loraine Kalp. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2531294,00.html

If any more proof were needed that these murders against Afrikaners are racist hate-crimes targetting this small very visible minority; Bloemfontein police reports that hate-slogans against Afrikaners were painted on the walls of a homestead – the murderers used the blood of Alice Lotter, 77 and daughter Helen, 57, after they were tortured to death:

The cruel torture murder of Alice Lotter, 77, and her daughter Helen, 57, caused a wave of abhorrance amongst the white community because of its incredible cruelty. The women, both frail, were tortured to death at their farm in Allenridge near Welkom in the Free State on April 1 2009. According to forensic evidence, the Lotter mother and daughter had died excruciatingly painful deaths: first tortured by being stabbed with broken glass bottles into their vaginas. One of the women also had her breasts cut off while she was still alive – and both women’s blood, police forensic experts found, had then been used to paint anti-Afrikaner hate slogans on the walls of their homestead. They were then allegedly killed by strangulation: i.e. they were hanged. In response, Odendaalsrust farmers held a demonstration outside the law courts where the accused murderers were appearing with a reenactment of the way these women had died. The demonstration drew condemnation from the Afrikaans news media ‘for its gruesome nature’. However this reenactment, pictured, wasn’t nearly as gruesome and horrid as the torture these women had to endure. Afrikaner police officers who investigated this horrific slaughter and had to gather forensic evidence, were also severely traumatised and required trauma counselling. And, despite the fact that the Lotter homestead was only one block away from the police station, no-one inside responded to the screams from these women while they were being slowly tortured to death. Click here for report of Odendaalsrust law court demonstrations. To her eternal disgrace, the local ANC-mayor had organised a counter-demonstration against a local white farmer who was appearing in court at the same time – while totally ignoring the horror these two white women had had to endure. Cruel torture-murders of two Afrikaans women was muti-harvesting: Read the original story in Afrikaans

June 19 2009 HOWICK, KZN. Beeld newspaper journalist Dries Liebenberg reports that a 23-year-old gardener has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murders of Alan O’Neale, 57, and his wife of two months Hannetjie Blom, 40, who was employed at a Howick biltong shop. Police said the motive for the double-murder probably was probably revenge although stolen items were found when the man was arrested. The couple’s torched bodies were found still smouldering in a bluegum-plantation at the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands’ self-catering Beverley guest farm in the Dargle Valley, Howick, about half-an-hour from Pietermaritzburg. Police senior superintendent Henry Budhram said forensic examiners established that the couple was garrotted before their bodies were set alight in the bluegum-plantation. The unnamed gardener ‘s case serves in Howick Magistrate’s Court. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2531333,00.htmlhttp://www.stayinsa.co.za/4408.htm

June 11 2009 - “In the tsunami of crime sweeping the country a weapon of war, an AK47 machine gun, had blown away a farmer, leaving his 54 employees jobless”, a Pietermaritzburg High Court judge said on Thursday. Judge Vivienne Niles-Duner was jailing the killer of local vegetable farmer Andrew Main, 53, to life behind bars. Main had two young daughters. Niles-Duner said it was not realised how many people were left without support when farmers were murdered. Ordinary people suffered and the damage to the economy was immense. Main's farm stood fallow for at least six months during which time most of his former workers could not find jobs. The workers toyi-toyed at the New Hanover Magistrate's Court when Main's killers made their first appearance. Niles-Duner told Main's murderer, Zamo Jali, 38, of Cramond, that farmer murders were a scourge, perpetrated by thugs such as he, motivated by greed and to obtain guns to commit more crimes. Main's murder had brought little booty for Jali and his co-perpetrators, Mxolizi Jali, serving 24 years' jail and Lucky Ntombela, who was shot dead when resisting arrest. She said she hoped Jali, who had previous convictions including robbery, for which he spent nine years in jail, would spend the rest of his life behind bars. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=nw20090611172546613C323914

June 8 2009 - The Eastern Free State police, farm workers and farmers teamed up and engaged in fierce, armed combat with a nine-member gang of armed farm attackers at Rooihoogte farm near Rosendal in the Free State. Some of these attackers had driven all the way from Rustenburg to attack this one specific farm. SA Police sergeant MC Mophiring of the Bethlehem police station writes on the SA Police Service website that this fight was won after seven black suspects were arrested in possession of two vehicles, knives, cellphones and robbed firearms. Strangely, this amazing story was not reported by the Free State daily newspapers. Police also arrested two black women who had been 'involved in the attack'. On 8 June 2009 at approximately 08:00 this large group of unknown black men stormed into the homestead of farmer Japie van Rensburg (64) after he had just left to feed the cattle in the veld with three workers. The gang first came across domestic worker Ms Anna Lesesa (23) but other than taking her cellphone, ook her cellphone, but left her unharmed, didn’t tie her up. However they then found disabled farm wife Mrs Nellie van Rensburg, 53, and her elderly mother Mrs Martha van den Berg, 79 in a bedroom.This large gang of black ‘men’, aged between 25 and 50 years, then proceeded to beat up and kick these helpless, frail white women, tying them up with cables and stealing the safe keys, a shotgun, a .22 rifle and a .22 pistol and fled the scene. Mrs Van Rensburg had been unable to defend herself or her mother, as she had been left disabled due to a stroke several years earlier. Two suspects are still at large. Contact Phuthaditjhaba Crime Unit at 058 718 4229. Sergeant M C. Mophiring Tel No: (058) 307784, Cellphone: 0795284784 Email address: fs.bethlehem.comm@saps.org.za link to story: http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=15693

June 11, 2009, Hartbeesfontein farmer Jan Pretorius, 76, and wife Marie, 74, have survived their second farm attack over the past 12 years. Farm attackers tried to ambush Pretorius outside his homestead at around 21:20 by switching off the electricity in the switchbox in their garden. However Pretorius instead came out with a handgun and fired a shot towards the attackers to scare them off. The men were within arm’s reach but they ran away. Police Insp. Wilmarie van der Merwe said they are investigating. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2528931,00.html

June 10, 2009. Beeld journalist Fanie van Rooyen reports from Pretoria that dairy farmer Chris Mare of Brits is recovering in hospital after fighting off a gang of armed robbers with his bare hands – and thus giving daughters Suné and Nicolene, wife Hildegard and son CP the chance to flee from the armed farm attackers.Mrs Hildegard Maré of a farm near Brits north of Pretoria said her husband is the hero of her family. Even though he was shot once in the right hand and twice in his lower torso, he fought like a lion to give his family a chance to flee. “My heavenly Father stopped them from hurting my family and from shooting me dead,’ he told journalist Fanie van Rooyen from his bed in the Pretoria Urological Hospital. His wife and children, Nicolene (20), Suné (16), and son CP (13), are ‘miraculously unharmed after the attack on their farm Rooikoppies near Brits. The family was seated around the kitchen table at 7pm on Tuesday-evening and they were just starting dinner when an armed group of men kicked open the back door and started shooting. “It was like one movement, they kicked open the door and started firing.’ Mr Maré jumped up and tried to grab the nearest attacker’s gun. “I wanted to give my wife and children the chance to flee. That’s when I was shot in the right hand,’ he said – which they did, running from the front door as fast as their legs could carry them. “My man fought back tremendously and this gave us our chance to get out,’ she said. Suné crawled in behind a bush in the dark, while Mrs Mare and her daughter Nicolene climbed over a wire fence to reach one of the farm worker’s cottages. She also realised to her horror that her young son CP was still in the house. Mrs Mare raised the emergency alarm, phoned the armed reaction unit, and rushed back to the homestead to go and help her husband and young son. “it sounded like a war, it was horrible,’ she said. “When I got near the house, Chris came stumbling out, bleeding terribly.’ He initially feared that CP may have been shot dead, but the youngster hid behind the freezer. The attackers fled when they heard the alarm. Mr Maré was first treated at the Brits-Medi-Clinic-hospital and then was transferred to the Pretoria Urological Hospital. Doctors said he’s ‘out of danger’. The attackers fled with a TV-set, three cellphones and two handbags. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2528491,00.html

June 1 2009 - Jackie Pienaar-Brink reports from Die Burger newspaper in Stellenbosch that the murdered and partially burnt body of Dr Klaas Jonkheid, 48, a top Afrikaans news media consumer expert who had just completed a market survey for that newspaper, was found murdered and torched in a churchyard in Faure in the Western Cape over the weekend. Police confirmed that he had been kidnapped from a farm road at the Spier wine estate near where he had been staying. Stellenbosch police said they arrested four men in Bellville-South shortly afterwards. The men were in possession of his cellphone, and a battery and spare wheel from his rental car. Dr Jonkheid, owner of the Consumer Psychology Lab in Parkhurst, Johannesburg, ‘presumably died of a head injury,’ said Stellenbosch police spokeswoman René Matthee. “There are indications that he had been set alight after his death.” Dr Jonkheid arrived in the Western Cape on the Wednesday before his murder to serve as a judge at a conference of the Southern African Marketing Research Association at Spier. On May 30 2009, the local police was informed by a passerby that a man’s burnt body was lying in a wooded patch on the terrain of the St. Paul’s Church about 500 metres from the Faure railway station. According to Matthee, Jonkheid left the Spier wine estate at about 15:00 on Friday and was due to return at 19:00 for a farewell dinner, but never showed up. He ran the Consumer Psychology Lab with his wife Liezel in Parkhurst, Johannesburg. He is survived by his parents Klaas and Joan of Kleinmond and Pretoria. The investigating officer is Det. Constable Stephen Adams, at tel. 079 854 2680 or 021 809 9140 sources: Stellenbosch/Faure police crime stats 2007/8: ttp://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/_provinces/w_cape/pdf/stellenbosch.pdfhttp://www.consumerlab.co.za/essays.htm

June 1 2009. A venerated, elderly Cistercian missionary from Upper Austria who dedicated the last forty ears of his life to the Maria Zell rural mission in the Griqualand region of South Africa near Kokstad, was found murdered there on Sunday. Authorities said Father Ernst Plöchl, 78, born in Neumarkt im Mühlkreis in the Austrian district of Freistadt, was killed under circumstances which remain murky. He was either shot to death or strangled, and it’s also not known if anything was stolen or what the actual motive may have been.The priest was widely admired in his hometown for his dedication to try and uplift the poor. A memorial mass is planned in his Austrian hometown on Friday. (Picture of father Ernst Plöchl by Marianhill Religious Order.) Information initially given by the South African authorities was confusing: it was at first announced that he had been shot, while the word later was that he had been strangled. His religious order announced he would be brought back to Austria and buried in his native country. Father Plöchl was found dead Sunday morning at his lonely outpost of Maria Zell mission, said Father Andreas Rohring, a spokesman for the Mariannhill order. . The elderly priest’s murder sent shockwaves throughout Austria, as the ‘socially very engaged’ priest was a much-loved figure in his home country. A memorial mass was held at Neumarkt-im-Mühlkreis, his home town. http://www.rundschau.co.at/rsooe/home/story.csp?cid=8846560&sid=75&fid=55http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Congregation_of_the_Missionaries_of_Mariannhillhttp://www.griquas.com/2007/14/090.jpg

200090528 Bernie Leibbrandt, 66, shot execution-style, Mnandi smallholdings Centurion – only a cellphone missing… children live in UK and New Zealand

May 29, 2009. Hilda Fourie of Beeld newspaper reports from their Pretoria office that an 80-year-old woman on Thursday found the body of her murdered stepson in front of his smallholding garage in Mnandi, Centurion. Bernie Leibbrandt, 66, picture taken by a friend, had been shot in the head execution-style. Leibbrandt leaves two daughters and a son, all in their thirties - living in England and New Zealand. He used to be a cricketer at the Harlequins cricket team. The smallholding lies right next to an upmarket golfing estate. "They only took his cellphone. Not his new Mercedes 4X4. Nothing, nothing. Bugger-all," said his best friend, Rudolph du Plessis, 43. "This was no robbery, it wasn't a break-in, it was just plain murder." Leibbrandt had been visiting his neighbour Du Plessis at the smallholding on Wednesday night. Just before 21:00, Leibbrandt went back to his own smallholding."When he arrived at his smallholding, he was shot in the head," said Du Plessis. "He even fell on the bag of potatoes I gave him." A friend of Leibbrandt's, Rosaly Seidler, said his stepmother, Vera Leibbrandt, 80, found his body in front of the garage on Thursday morning at about 08:00. Vera lives in another house on the same smallholding. It borders on the upmarket Gardener Ross Golfing Estate pictured here She became concerned when he didn't answer his cellphone, so she went to his house. Seidler said some of Leibbrandt's possessions were on the stoep, but nothing at all was missing except for the cellphone.http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2523736,00.html

May 26 2009. Police say they arrested one of three men who allegedly murdered KwaZuluNatal farmer Alan Rowe in an assassination style ‘hit’. Identified as Busane Machunmahle Mchunu, 34, the suspect already was already arrested May 21 in the Mhlanga area near Greytown, but this fact was only brought the arrest to light five days later, said senior superintendent H Budhrum. “ Investigations have established that there were three suspects who attacked Rowe on the day of the murder. Two of the suspects are still at large and are being sought. The arrest was not made known earlier due to the ‘pointing out’ which has now been concluded and will be paramount in the forth coming trial. The arrested suspect identified as Busane Machunamahle Mchunu appeared in the Greytown Magistrates' Court on Monday, 25 May 2009. Budhrum writes that on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 at about 20:30, police were alerted of a shooting at Bloemendal dairy farm in Rietvlei area. On arrival at the scene, Police found the body of a man, lying next to a cattle grazing camp fence, meters away from his vehicle. The deceased has been identified as Alan Rowe (57). He had sustained two gunshot wounds to his upper body. “ Contact info: Senior Superintendent H. BUDHRUM, tel (033) 8452570, cellphone: 0824961054 SAPS url: http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=15415On the picture left, his distraught family gathers at the murder scene: his cousins Graham and Laura Rowe, and aunt Mrs Bev Rowe. Picture: Sandile Waka-Zamisa. also: MEC says farm killing was senseless .http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2516724,00.html

20090430 Pieter Honeyborne, 50, killed at farm Goedehoop near Bethal: two of five attackers arrested by Blinkpan police, family terrorised by squatters

May 20 2009 - Story by Buks Viljoen, Beeld newspaper. A farmer with 300 workers was shot dead at his homestead on the farm Goedehoop near the towns of Blinkpan, Bethal in the Eastvaal region of Mpumalanga by five attackers, described as ‘young, black males’ in the local news media. Police have now arrested two suspects. For the past four years, the family and their 300 workers are being terrorised by illegal squatters who have moved their shacks onto the private farmland. The murdered farmer’s son, also Pieter, said the family is still trying to keep the farm going, however they are being 'terrorised, victimised and intimidated'. He claims the police ‘refuses to investigate their charges’, and instead have arrested him for ‘theft ‘ when he had taken back the wood which squatters had been looting from his farm. They are also slaughtering the livestock with their dog packs, he said. After the murder of their family patriarch, the grieving relatives say, they now are too scared to remain on the farm overnight after repeated breakins since that time – and because of the ongoing intimidation against them at their homestead. And the family’s 300 farm workers, who have been working for the Honeyborne family for generations, now also face losing their livelihood. He said that after the family's repeated charges of theft, initimidation of workers and poaching of their stock ‘were being ignored by police’, he personally pleaded with the provincial head of the SAPS detectives unit director Tony Gama, for help to protect their workers and his family against the aggressive squatter community. His pleading seems to have paid off: the Beeld journalist was told on May 19 2009 by police inspector Sarel Smit of the Blinkpan police station that two suspects have now been arrested for the murder of Pieter Honeyborne senior. The police are also 'aware of the squatter problem' said Smit, and are now riding patrols across the farm every two hours. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2519206,00.html5 black male attackers, nothing robbed http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2510004,00.html

Hungarian-born Jozseph Kuli, a retired industrial chemist and landscaping contractor, was murdered on March 24 2009 at his agricultural smallholding in greater Johannesburg just before his 70th birthday. Expat daughter Maria Atkins was visiting her father at the time with her husband from Australia to celebrate his 70th birthday. Five armed thugs gunned down the unarmed ex-Hungarian refugee as he fled from his bed. Mrs Atkins said he was a a keen conservationist of South Africa’s lavish variety of ferns and after retiring from his mining job, turned his hand to landscape contracting. It’s ironic that a Hungarian refugee who had survived Soviet suppression and an armed uprising in 1956, would be slaughtered in this senseless way in South Africa – a country he’d contributed so many skills to, and a country which he’d believed would be safe to raise his family in. He was born in the ancient* bronze-age village of Tápiószecső, Hungary.http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/05/1956-hungarian-refugee-jozseph-kuli_18.html

May 11 2009 - Twenty-five year old Akhona Inocent Gini, in the superman t-shirt, appeared in the Cullinan magistrate’s court charged with the gruesome murders of the Dutch dairy-farming couple Johan and Cobi van den Bosch at their smallholding near Mooiplaats. Gini was arrested in a squatter camp outside Witbank, police said. Beeld journalist Hilda Fourie took his picture outside the court. Gini, according to the court records, appears on two charges of murder, and one charge of robbery with extenuating circumstances. Gini was a former employee of the Dutch-born couple. Police told the news media that one of the couple’s two stolen cellphones was found with him. He has apparently submitted a statement admitting his guilt in the case. However magistrate Petro Engelbrecht postposted the case for a week for further investigations, and to allow Gini to obtain legal aid for his bail application. His admission of guilt will not be automatically accepted in South African law courts until he has given a plea-explanation in court anyway. He remains in custody until his next court appearance. source: http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2514828,00.html

20090615 Four men injured, Madibeng farm shop - white man arrested

June 15 2009 Four young men, aged between 13 and 26, were shot near a farm in Madibeng, North West police said on Monday. Captain Aafje Botma said police were investigating cases of attempted murder after a 55-year-old man shot at the young men as they walked to a shop in Klipkop on Sunday evening.A 13-year-old boy was wounded in his right hand, a 15-year-old in his right eye, a 19-year-old was shot in his right hand and a 26-year-old man in his right leg. The 19-year-old was in a critical condition in the hospital. The 55-year-old man was arrested but the motive for the shooting was unclear, Botma said. The shotgun used in the shooting was confiscated and the man was due to appear in court soon. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20090615134111269C322770

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Please note that my site with the PAST SEVEN YEARS' information on atrocities against white South Africas, was hacked away. It used to be on https://www.censorbugbear.org. I apologize that this information is no longer available online. Anyone needing information about specific cases please email me at a.j.stuijt@knid.nl

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The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '